lign-aloes

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lign-aloes

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Inherited from Middle English, from Middle French lignalöé, from Latin lignum + aloes. Compare lign-. The -s originates in the Latin genitive case, but it seems to have been reinterpreted as an English plural form.

noun lign-aloes · lignaloe · lign aloe · ligne aloes · linaloa · linaloe

agalloch, aloes
agarwood, trees of the genus Aquilaria, especially the species Aquilaria malaccensis c. 1380 "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Book IV, line 1135ff. The woful teeris that they leten falle As bittre weren out of teris kynde, ffor peyne, as is ligne aloes or

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@misc{lign_aloes_2026,
  title = {lign-aloes},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lign-aloes},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}